>I don't know a way of doing that in any of the C style languages http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/optional/doc/html/index.html http://www.boost.org/d

>I don't know a way of doing that in any of the C style languages http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/optional/doc/html/index.html http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/optional/doc/html/... https://www.google.com/#q=maybe+in+c%2B%2B https://www.google.com/#q=maybe+in+c%2B%2B ...and also I couldn't resist... char* response(messy* message) { body* b = message->body; return b && (b->text) && b->linecount < 11 && b->text[10]; } ...for a C-ish like language. And that's without creating a "do-notation" macro to erase the &&, as the Haskell do-notation erases the >>=.